Everyone invited to Des Moines

[John of Des Moines]

From the Campaign: EVERYONE IS INVITED TO Des Moines. Do NOT believe anything in Facebook or any other website that implies anything to the contrary.

 

[LibertyEagle]

Oh geez! We need someone from the campaign to come on here and verify. This is getting way past ridiculous.

 

[John of Des Moines]

Verify

Oh geez! We need someone from the campaign to come on here and verify. This is getting way past ridiculous.

The campaign needs to keep an arms length from certain activities (FEC rules & other considerations).

I received an email from Joe Seehusen, Iowa Campaign Manager, that EVERYONE is invited!!!

 

[mdh]

I think it's safe to assume based on the official announcement that everyone is indeed invited, and moreso, that they are hoping to have a large showing. It's very likely that Failor's croneys, etc, are out there trying to spread falsehoods and prevent our event from being a success.

 

[PatriotOne]

From the Campaign: EVERYONE IS INVITED TO Des Moines. Do NOT believe anything in Facebook or any other website that implies anything to the contrary.

I hope this whole issue was just misplaced good intentions, but unfortunately the truth is that there will always be people pretending to support Ron Paul trying to undermine the campaign and unsubstantiated rumors should always be seen as such.

I suspect Ron Paul is a particular target of these people because of his stance on so many issues. There are going to be paid disinfo agents, as well as just sneaky supporter's of other candidates. The only way to combat this is WAIT FOR OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENTS

 

[mdh]

The campaign needs to keep an arms length from certain activities (FEC rules & other considerations).

Totally right.

Let's take one simple example - let's say that they become more involved in this forum. then, let's say we find out Josh is in the KKK and all about racism and stuff (I know you're not Josh, sorry - just an example buddy ) and decides that this is going to be a Ron Paul forum that espouses the KKK and stuff - now, the campaign folks have no way to stop that, and they've endorsed the forum. Doh. Megalose.
But that's just one point with regards to how the official campaign has to be run at arms length from many of our "supporter-owner-and-operated" operations. They have no way to know who among us are good guys or bad guys, better to let us take care of our own community and support them so that they can do critical stuff like appearances and mass-marketing in the home stretch.
Beyond that, FEC regulations are indeed quite restrictive.

 

[Scribbler de Stebbing]

Spontaneous grassroots activity is more populist and desirable anyways. This rally sprang up from nowhere. Some people decided they were going to crash the forum. And it grew from there. That Ron Paul is now going to speak in an adjacent room is totally unrelated. Maybe not totally.

On grassroots organized activities, don't wait for an official announcement. We make the rules there.

For official campaign stuff, such as RP's speech, sure, read the announcement.

(I still say we should let the forum attendees get in the room and help themselves to the food before we try. Personally, I'm not going to have the campaign waste its precious money on me.)

 

[LibertyEagle]

Well, someone better tell those Facebook folks, because they all think the campaign has told them not to go to Iowa.

 

[mdh]

Well, someone better tell those Facebook folks, because they all think the campaign has told them not to go to Iowa.

Has anyone emailed Justine?

 

[princessredtights]

http://eventful.com/events/E0-001-005011869-5


Here's the eventful link to the RALLY ...

 

[angelatc]

The campaign needs to keep an arms length from certain activities (FEC rules & other considerations).

The campaign has a forum here specifically for their announcements.

 

[mdh]

http://eventful.com/events/E0-001-005011869-5


Here's the eventful link to the RALLY ...

That's the link to the inside event with Dr. Paul.
The event for the outside event is at http://eventful.com/events/E0-001-004986982-7

 

[JoshLowry]

Has anyone emailed Justine?

Yes, I am waiting to hear back from her.

 

[LibertyEagle]

Here is the Facebook URL that Megan gave us last night when it was claimed that we were told NOT to attend:

http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?uid=2229718737&topic=5091&start=0

 

[mdh]

So who is this Trevor Cook idiot, and why is he proclaiming to speak for the campaign headquarters folks?

 

[Scribbler de Stebbing]

Who knows. It would be good to get the campaign thoughts on this, but they may be unwilling to publicly publish that "well, gee, we really want to see the Iowa forum attendees get in the room and enjoy the food for which we're shelling out $10 a head." So you might not get that out of them on letterhead and signed by someone on the official payroll.

I will say again -- and obviously you can ignore or even flame me -- that I wish y'all would see the importance of letting the forum attendees get taken care of first. We're going to be having our own rally outside, and word is that we're going to get in to see Dr Paul AFTER the first speech for the forum people.

What is wrong with that?

 

[BLS]

This Is Exacltly Why

I suggested we centralize and organize.

How many people won't go because of some rumor?

That rumor could have been disspelled had everybody used one site for all their organization needs.

Just sayin.

 

[JoshLowry]

I wish y'all would see the importance of letting the forum attendees get taken care of first.

I think the majority of us are on par with this.

 

[LibertyEagle]

(I still say we should let the forum attendees get in the room and help themselves to the food before we try. Personally, I'm not going to have the campaign waste its precious money on me.)

I agree. The forum that will be held inside is not for US. It is for the potential IOWAN voters. If we crowd them out, we will have defeated the whole purpose of this thing.

Our job, it seems to me, is to be in a support role.

 

[Noodles]

Another idea:

After arriving in Iowa, when you're doing the door-to-door, sitting in restaurants, etc., INVITE Iowans to the Ron Paul speech. Do not mention the "official" forum, just the Ron Paul gig. Also, can't we all volunteer to up the food budget so that the 500 number could be elevated to 5000 if need be? No reason to let a lack of Coca-Cola and hot dogs, or whatever, slow us down.

Don't flame me about the free lunch thing, either. I'm probably not even going to be able to make it to Iowa. But I will send $50 to help with more food. Let's make this event huge. We need to hurdle all the limitations we find.

Just my opinion.